Drug dealers and influential mafia bosses are said to be funding the insurgency and attacks in the deep South, including the most recent car bombings, an analysis by the Fourth Army Area commander Lt-General Udomchai Thammasarorat showed. “They have also heightened their operations in response to extensive suppression by security forces and civilian authorities, and […]
Phi Phi Island residents were overjoyed yesterday to learn they would be able to access state-run electricity within six months, as the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department will allow power poles to be erected in the Hat Noppharat Thara – Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park. The poles-in-the-park decision followed a visit to […]
YALA, Feb 21 – An explosion at a Yala supermarket killed one woman and wounded 12 other people in this violence-plagued province Monday afternoon, the second in eight days. The blast set fire to nearby shops, a highway police vehicle and several motorcycles. The dead woman has not yet been identified. According to a preliminary […]
NARATHIWAT, Feb 21 – Two villagers in this southern border province were gunned down Monday morning by presumed insurgents, one in Takbai district and another in the district of Cho Ai Rong. The first victim was Vitoon Sidam, a 33-year-old grocery store owner. He was driving his motorcycle with his sister-in-law as passenger for an […]
NARATHIWAT, Feb 20 – Seventeen persons were wounded by a shooting and car bomb by presumed muslim insurgents Saturday night in the trouble-plagued southern province of Narathiwat. The first incident occurred at a karaoke restaurant where two female workers were injured in a shooting late Saturday night. Half an hour later, while the police were […]
PATTANI, Feb 19 — Deputy Interior Minister Thavorn Senneam on Saturday warned that insurgents operating in the deep South have stepped up unrest during 2011, while presumed insurgents shot dead a former member of the Tambon (Sub-district) Administration Organisation (TAO) of the southern-troubled Pattani province. Mr Thavorn said that there were signs that insurgents in […]
IT’S schoolies on steroids. A teenager’s paradise. No parents, no rules, no authorities, no police. No limits. Welcome to Thailand’s infamous Full Moon parties, where the signature drink is a bucket of hard alcohol with red bull – drugs of all kinds are bought over the counter at bars. Every month, thousands of backpackers descend […]
TRAT, 19 February 2011 (NNT) – A ban on alcohol has been issued by the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) for seven national parks in the East, including Mu Ko Chang National Park. The DNP now prohibits visitors from bringing alcoholic beverages into a total of seven national parks located in […]
